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en-usderekb.lowe@gmail.com2015-07-02T07:05:22-05:00hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00The End Result of Faked Resultshttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/07/02/the_end_result_of_faked_results.php
Oh, man. Here's another example of an old, sad story - just a little fakery at the beginning, and here's what it leads to: Government prosecutors said (Dong-Pyou) Han's misconduct dates to 2008 when he worked at Case Western Reserve...77824@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/Infectious Diseases2015-07-02T07:05:22-05:00A Retraction, Ten Years Laterhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/06/22/a_retraction_ten_years_later.php
Here's an odd thing, noted by a reader of this site. Organic Letters has a retraction of a paper in the Baldwin group at Oxford, "Biomimetic Synthesis of Himbacine". This Letter has been retracted, as it was found that (a)...77804@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Scientific Literature2015-06-22T11:48:48-05:00Some Sales Forcehttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/04/29/some_sales_force.php
If you want to see the real underbelly of pharmaceutical sales and promotion, here it is. Insys Therapeutics makes a sublingual spray formulation of fentanyl called Subsys, and has been doing very well with it. But that seems to be,...77724@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Dark Side2015-04-29T11:08:19-05:00Giving Ambulance Chasing a Bad Namehttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/04/29/giving_ambulance_chasing_a_bad_name.php
My Twitter feed alerted me to this press release, surely one of the sleaziest I've seen in a long time. It's not that there's no actual data in it, although that's bad enough. Nor is it that it talks about...77722@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/Clinical Trials2015-04-29T05:37:15-05:00People Only Fake Things That Are Valuablehttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/30/people_only_fake_things_that_are_valuable.php
The fake peer review scandals just keep on coming. BioMed Central noticed problems with a few papers last fall, but they've now had to pull 43 papers from their journals: Some of the manipulations appear to have been conducted by...77675@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Scientific Literature2015-03-30T06:17:07-05:00Three More Retractionshttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/11/three_more_retractions.php
Ouch. When the "unclick" work from the Bielawski lab at Texas was found not to hold up, the word was that other papers involving the now-hard-to-find co-author (Kelly Wiggins) were being looked over. And here come three more retractions. They...77643@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Scientific Literature2015-03-11T10:29:02-05:00Unclick Undone, Unsurprisinglyhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/02/20/unclick_undone_unsurprisingly.php
The now-notorious "unclick" paper has been retracted. Last summer saw an editorial "Expression of Concern", and later it was reported by C&E News that a common author (Kelly Wiggins) of all three papers in this area had confessed to fabricating...77604@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Scientific Literature2015-02-20T07:08:52-05:00India's GVK Accused of Systematic Fraudhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/01/26/indias_gvk_accused_of_systematic_fraud.php
This does not look good at all. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accused the large Indian generic company (and outsourcing contractor) GVK of widespread systematic fraud. According to this press release, the agency investigated about 1000 generic formulations of...77558@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Dark Side2015-01-26T12:10:53-05:00Maybe Don't Refund That Grant Money After Allhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/01/21/maybe_dont_refund_that_grant_money_after_all.php
Setting what is nearly a new personal record, I'm backtracking on my approval yesterday of the idea of granting agencies getting a refund for retracted papers. The problems I mentioned in that post, along with the arguments of many in...77550@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Scientific Literature2015-01-21T07:16:05-05:00Refund That Grant Moneyhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/01/20/refund_that_grant_money.php
Now, here's a proposal that would shake a lot of academic research up: what if granting agencies could force a refund of the awarded funds if the resulting work has to be retracted? That's the idea of this post at...77548@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Dark Side2015-01-20T11:54:46-05:00The Duke/Potti Scandal, From the Insidehttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/01/14/the_dukepotti_scandal_from_the_inside.php
You may remember Anil Potti, the cancer researcher at Duke whose biomarker-driven therapies turned out to be so poorly designed as to be useless. (Or you might recall the bizarrely clumsy firm that he hired to try to burnish his...77540@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/Clinical Trials2015-01-14T06:57:19-05:00Nonstop Glamour and Prestigehttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/01/06/nonstop_glamour_and_prestige.php
A longtime reader sent along these two items as indications of just how high-end it's getting in some parts of the scientific publishing game. First off, we have King Abdulaziz University (of Saudi Arabia) aggressively recruiting for their "International Affiliate...77524@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Dark Side2015-01-06T09:35:54-05:00More Designer Drugshttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/12/16/more_designer_drugs.php
Here's a good article on the illegal recreational drug trade - the boutique end of it, anyway. I've written about this sort of thing before, and this piece is squarely in the same territory (even to interviewing David Nichols). It...77504@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/Chemical News2014-12-16T07:54:46-05:00Kickbacks At Sanofi?http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/12/04/kickbacks_at_sanofi.php
Whistleblower lawsuits are hard to interpret. Sometimes massive problems are uncovered, by the only people (insiders) who could uncover them. And sometimes it's a disgruntled employee looking for revenge, a payout, or both. So I don't know what to make...77483@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/Business and Markets2014-12-04T07:43:00-05:00Deadly Incompetence in Indiahttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/11/24/deadly_incompetence_in_india.php
Here, then, is the bottom of the drug-manufacturing barrel: the recent case in India where women at a sterilization clinic were poisoned by defective ciprofloxacin tablets. They were supposed to be getting 500mg of the antibiotic, but after several deaths,...77469@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/The Dark Side2014-11-24T10:44:58-05:00